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Sessile Poetics: More-Than-Human Territories in Latin American Arts

Sessile Poetics: More-Than-Human Territories in Latin American Arts

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Series: Subatlantic, Book 4

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3119144770
ISBN13: 9783119144773
Publisher: de Gruyter
Pages: 235
Language: English

In these complex times of climate disasters, inequalities, and rampant capitalism, it is impossible to ignore how sociopolitical aspects in the Global South inherently emerge in artistic practices to make visible and denounce the injustices of the world economic system on both human and non-human territories and agents.

The concept of sessility in arts is borrowed from botany, where sessile organisms (e.g., plants/mushrooms) are rooted, immobile according to our scale, and deeply connected to their environment. Applied to artistic practices, it denotes works that prioritize rootedness, non-human agency, and material collaborations with ecological systems. Sessile poetics decentralizes human dominance by centering on the materialities and operations of non-human entities (e.g., soil, plants, minerals) to critique extractivisms, territorial violence, and colonial legacies mainly in Latin America, but not exclusive. These works use anthropically decentralized processes--such as integrating organic decay, geological timelines, or symbiotic relationships--to visualize ecological crises and imagine futures beyond the colonial apocalyptic future.

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